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Top Forums Programming To Perl or not to Perl, that is the question... ;o) Post 303037700 by stomp on Friday 9th of August 2019 05:40:11 PM
Old 08-09-2019
I'm not a great perl hacker either. It was my first Scripting Language after bash in Linux ~20 years ago. The syntax is uncomfortable to me. It's quite fast. It's a usable general purpose scripting language, that scales a lot beyond shell scripting. I hadn't been using it for real work for a long time now.

I would not say it is a must learn. It has some unique points in it's purpose of using. So I will probably use it, if those points matter.

- great stability of syntax (stick to version ~5.00x if you like to have that)
- great availability(still available in the newest systems)

Some people still use it for current code(e. g. Proxmox, great open source virtualization management solution and mail filtering solution).

If you like to generate good code, you may do in perl too(or even the opposite - if you like).

The version number rised considerably in the last years and wikipedia mentions that features of the not-really-used perl 6 are being integrated zu perl 5 step by step. Maybe those features are worth a look?

Perl 5 version history - Wikipedia

Its Anti-Hype atmosphere appears kind of cool to me.

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WWW::Wikipedia::Entry(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				WWW::Wikipedia::Entry(3pm)

NAME
WWW::Wikipedia::Entry - A class for representing a Wikipedia Entry SYNOPSIS
my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new(); my $entry = $wiki->search( 'Perl' ); print $entry->text(); my $entry_es = $entry->language( 'es' ); print $entry_es->text(); DESCRIPTION
WWW::Wikipedia::Entry objects are usually created using the search() method on a WWW::Wikipedia object to search for a term. Once you've got an entry object you can then extract pieces of information from the entry using the following methods. METHODS
new() You probably won't use this one, it's the constructor that is called behind the scenes with the correct arguments by WWW::Wikipedia::search(). text() The brief text for the entry. This will provide the first paragraph of text; basically everything up to the first heading. Ordinarily this will be what you want to use. When there doesn't appear to be summary text you will be returned the fulltext instead. If text() returns nothing then you probably are looking at a disambiguation entry, and should use related() to lookup more specific entries. text_basic() The same as "text()", but not run through Text::Autoformat. fulltext() Returns the full text for the entry, which can be extensive. fulltext_basic() The same as "fulltext()", but not run through Text::Autoformat. title() Returns a title of the entry. related() Returns a list of terms in the wikipedia that are mentioned in the entry text. categories() Returns a list of categories which the entry is part of. So Perl is part of the Programming languages category. headings() Returns a list of headings used in the entry. raw() Returns the raw wikitext for the entry. language() With no parameters, it will return the current language of the entry. By specifying a two-letter language code, it will return the same entry in that language, if available. languages() Returns an array of two letter language codes denoting the languages in which this entry is available. AUTHORS
Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003-2011 by Ed Summers This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-02-16 WWW::Wikipedia::Entry(3pm)
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